We are complete in him. So kingdom of God is within you sets two limits: upper limit is the world of the Spirit. lower limit is the world of the body. Having received Christ by faith what does St Paul say?
v.5 "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." St Paul writing to the church in Colosse he is certain,'yet I am with yoou'. In Christ we are with him in the Spirit, angels and believers alike, dead or alive. St Paul never visited Colosse, 'and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.(2.1) We have our being in Christ and as v.6 says, 'so walk ye in him.' At this point we need draw a distinction here. The World of the Spirit does not allow the physical aspects of the person rule us, "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more."(2 Cor.5.16) and they are with Christ as much as we are with him.. "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him."(2.6)
On the contrary growth covers both worlds of the Spirit and body alike. We walk in our vile bodies not by sight but by faith. Growth is in terms of the glory which is after the body 'Father has prepared for his Son.(Heb.10.5) God has set the template of the Son which is our heart a spiritual space. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."(2 Cor.4.6). We grow from glory to glory," But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."(2 Cor.3.18)
v.7 " Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
We are complete in him. So kingdom of God is within you sets two limits: upper limit is the world of the Spirit. lower limit is the world of the body. Having received Christ by faith what does St Paul say?
v.5 "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." St Paul writing to the church in Colosse he is certain,'yet I am with yoou'. In Christ we are with him in the Spirit, angels and believers alike, dead or alive. St Paul never visited Colosse, 'and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.(2.1) We have our being in Christ and as v.6 says, 'so walk ye in him.' At this point we need draw a distinction here. The World of the Spirit does not allow the physical aspects of the person rule us, "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more."(2 Cor.5.16) and they are with Christ as much as we are with him.. "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him."(2.6)
On the contrary growth covers both worlds of the Spirit and body alike. We walk in our vile bodies not by sight but by faith. Growth is in terms of the glory which is after the body 'Father has prepared for his Son.(Heb.10.5) God has set the template of the Son which is our heart a spiritual space. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."(2 Cor.4.6). We grow from glory to glory," But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."(2 Cor.3.18)
v.7 " Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
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